The oculist C. Cassius Philota developed his activity in the imperial court of Rome in the first century AD. The text of his epitaph provides interesting information that allows to compose a portrait ...of both this physician and his close family circle. In this way, I have examined his legal status and the circumstances that could benefit his access to the imperial palace. Moreover, the comparison of this epigraphical document with literary sources and other Roman inscriptions led me to evaluate the social dynamics played by physicians with ties to the imperial power during the Principate.
L’oculiste C. Cassius Philotes développa son activité à la cour impériale de Rome au Ier siècle de notre ère. Le texte de son épitaphe fournit d’intéressantes données qui permettent de composer un portrait de ce médecin et d’une partie de son cercle familial le plus proche, en traitant de questions telles que le statut juridique et les circonstances qui pourraient favoriser l’accès au palais impérial. Par ailleurs, la comparaison de ce document épigraphique avec des sources littéraires et avec d’autres inscriptions romaines a permis d’apprécier la dynamique sociale des médecins liés au pouvoir dans l’Empire romain.
El oculista C. Cassius Philota desarrolló su actividad en la corte imperial de Roma en el siglo i d. C. El texto de su epitafio aporta interesantes datos que permiten componer un retrato de este médico y de parte de su círculo familiar más cercano, atendiendo a cuestiones como el estatus jurídico y las circunstancias que pudieron beneficiar el acceso al palacio imperial. Además, el cotejo de este documento epigráfico con las fuentes literarias y con otras inscripciones de Roma nos ha permitido valorar las dinámicas sociales de los médicos relacionados con el poder en el Imperio romano.
Alonso Alonso María Ángeles. El oculista C. Cassius Philota y los médicos de corte en la Roma altoimperial. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 47, n°2, 2021. pp. 251-276.
Large word squares have been pursued in many languages, but large word squares in Latin appear to have remained unexplored, despite the form's origins in ancient Rome and despite the benefits offered ...by Latin inflectional endings. New word squares constructed in Latin are shown to surpass in size those created in other languages to date, most notably by attaining the holy grail of logology: the first known non-tautonymic ten-squares consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized words in a single language. Additional results, also consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized Latin words, include double eight-squares, a double nine-square, and eleven-squares.
On [ k ] -Roman domination in graphs Khalili, N.; Amjadi, J.; Chellali, M. ...
AKCE international journal of graphs and combinatorics,
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AbstractFor an integer Formula: see text let f be a function that assigns labels from the set Formula: see text to the vertices of a simple graph Formula: see text. The active neighborhood AN(v) of a ...vertex Formula: see text with respect to f is the set of all neighbors of v that are assigned non-zero values under f. A Formula: see text-Roman dominating function (Formula: see text-RDF) is a function Formula: see text such that for every vertex Formula: see text with f(v) < k, we have Formula: see text. The weight of a Formula: see text-RDF is the sum of its function values over the whole set of vertices, and the Formula: see text-Roman domination number Formula: see text is the minimum weight of a Formula: see text-RDF on G. In this paper we determine various bounds on the Formula: see text-Roman domination number. In particular, we show that for any integer Formula: see text every connected graph G of order Formula: see text, satisfies Formula: see text and we characterize the graphs G attaining this bound. Moreover, we show that if T is a nontrivial tree, then Formula: see text for every integer Formula: see text and we characterize the trees attaining the lower bound. Finally, we prove the NP-completeness of the Formula: see text-Roman domination problem in bipartite and chordal graphs.
Roman {2}-Bondage Number of a Graph Moradi, Ahmad; Mojdeh, Doost Ali; Sharifi, Omid
Discussiones Mathematicae. Graph Theory,
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For a given graph
=(
), a Roman {2}-dominating function
:
(
) → {0, 1, 2} has the property that for every vertex
with
) = 0, either
is adjacent to a vertex assigned 2 under
, or is adjacent to at ...least two vertices assigned 1 under
. The Roman {2}-domination number of
,
), is the minimum of Σ
) over all such functions. In this paper, we initiate the study of the problem of finding Roman {2}-bondage number of
. The Roman {2}-bondage number of
,
, is defined as the cardinality of a smallest edge set
⊆
for which
−
) >
). We first demonstrate complexity status of the problem by proving that the problem is NP-Hard. Then, we derive useful parametric as well as fixed upper bounds on the Roman {2}-bondage number of
. Specifically, it is known that the Roman bondage number of every planar graph does not exceed 15 (see S. Akbari, M. Khatirinejad and S. Qajar,
, Graphs Combin. 29 (2013) 327–331). We show that same bound will be preserved while computing the Roman {2}-bondage number of such graphs. The paper is then concluded by computing exact value of the parameter for some classes of graphs.
In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes, watched over and protected their surviving family ...members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian saints, the manes were incredibly inclusive—enrolling even those without social clout, such as women and the poor, among Rome's deities. The Roman afterlife promised posthumous power in the world of the living. While the manes have often been glossed over in studies of Roman religion, this book brings their compelling story to the forefront, exploring their myriad forms and how their worship played out in the context of Roman religion’s daily practice. Exploring the place of the manes in Roman society, Charles King delves into Roman beliefs about their powers to sustain life and bring death to individuals or armies, examines the rituals the Romans performed to honor them, and reclaims the vital role the manes played in the ancient Roman afterlife.
Ancient biomolecules have become an increasingly important part of archaeological investigations interested in understanding population movements and health. Despite their ability to elucidate ...historically-attested contexts of human mobility and interaction between different cultural groups, biomolecular techniques are still underutilized in certain historical and archaeological contexts. One such context is the Roman Imperial limes, or border zone, along the lower reaches of the Danube, which saw more than five hundred years of migration, conflict, and accommodation among a wide range of populations, from Mediterranean settlers to steppe pastoralists. In this region, more than a century of archaeological investigation has unearthed the remains of tens of thousands of Roman-era individuals. However, only a limited number of contexts have undergone biomolecular analyses. While these deceased humans may offer an untapped reservoir of biomolecular information, many were collected during a period when the standard precautions and protocols for ancient biomolecular research were not yet established. Because contamination is a major barrier for successfully recovering ancient DNA and proteins, conducting a pilot study to assess bimolecular preservation of a small representative dataset of human remains before embarking on a more extensive research program may prevent unnecessary sampling. This study applies ancient DNA and paleoproteomic techniques to human remains from a Roman-period cemetery at Histria, a site located just south of the Danube at the edge of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior. The individuals from whom we sampled dentin and dental calculus were excavated between the 1940s and 1980s and were housed at the Francisc J. Rainer Institute since. Our results suggest that both microbial and human ancient DNA is preserved in the dental calculus and dentin samples. We also successfully recovered sex-specific amelogenin peptides in tooth enamel from three individuals, including a juvenile. In conclusion, our results are encouraging, signifying the feasibility of future aDNA and paleoproteomic research for this skeletal collection. Our analyses also showcase how sex estimation with genomic and proteomic methods may contradict traditional osteological approaches. These findings not only offer deeper insights into the lives of these individuals but also show promise for the investigation of broader anthropological questions, such as the impact of Roman annexation in this region.
U radu se donose nalazi otkriveni na predjelu Goveja u gradu Visu na istoimenom otoku, čiji karakter i opisani kontekst pronalaska upućuju na zaključak da je riječ o materijalnim ostatcima antičkog ...paljevinskog groba. Među njima se posebno ističe unikatna keramička posuda, u ovom kontekstu korištena kao urna, za koju se prema tipičnom morfološkom modelu skifa s barbottine ukrasom predlaže izradba u nekoj od radionica koje su grupirane unutar klase Pontske sigilate, odnosno u nekom od crnomorskih/istočnomediteranskih proizvodnih središta. Njezina posebnost ogleda se u dodanom elaboriranom reljefu, koji svojim prikazom uvelike podsjeća na ukrasne detalje s drugih uporabnih predmeta – aplike s fulkruma klina – a koji se interpretira kao prikaz Artemide/Dijane. Detaljna analiza i kontekstualizacija ovdje predstavljenih grobnih nalaza produbljuje naše spoznaje o izradi i potražnji stolnog posuđa kasnog 1. odnosno 2. stoljeća te otvara nova pitanja o izgledu i rasprostranjenosti
isejskih pogrebnih krajolika, kao i o specifičnim odlikama isejskog pogrebnog obreda.
Colourless glass became prominent between the middle of the 1st century AD and the beginning of the 4th century. This text reflects the diversity of glass and is designed as a practical manual ...divided into three parts: assemblages, typological catalogue, chemical analyses.
Early in the twentieth century a new character type emerged in the crime novels of American writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler: the “hard-boiled” detective, most famously ...exemplified by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Unlike the analytical detectives of nineteenth-century fiction, such as Edgar Allan Poe’s Inspector Dupin, the new detectives encountered cases not as intricate logical puzzles but as stark challenges of manhood. In the stories of these characters and their criminal opposites, John T. Irwin explores the tension within ideas of American masculinity between subordination and independence and, for the man who becomes “his own boss,” the conflict between professional codes and personal desires. He shows how, within different works of hard-boiled fiction, the professional either overcomes the personal or is overcome by it, ending in ruinous relationships or in solitary integrity, and how within the genre all notions of manly independence are ultimately revealed to be illusions subordinate to fate itself.
Tracing the stylistic development of the genre, Irwin demonstrates the particular influence of the novel of manners, especially the writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. He goes on to argue that, from the time of World War II, when hard-boiled fiction began to appear on the screen in film noir just as women entered the workforce in large numbers, many of its themes came to extend to female empowerment. Finally, he discusses how these themes persist in contemporary dramatic series on television, representing the conflicted lives of Americans into the twenty-first century.
L’article se propose d’étudier la réappropriation et la fragmentation de la mémoire chez le personnage migrant d’origine africaine. L’objectif en est de décrire les ressorts identitaires à partir de ...l’écriture de la mémoire dans trois romans produits en contexte diasporique : "Black Bazar" d’Alain Mabanckou, "Le Ventre de l’Atlantique" de Fatou Diome et "Au pays" de Tahar Ben Jelloun. En prenant appui sur la méthode thématique, la réflexion autour de la réappropriation de la mémoire indique que ces trois romans procèdent à une écriture privilégiant la mémoire personnelle, la mémoire du pays d’origine et la place de l’Occident dans la mémoire du continent africain. La description du personnage postcolonial aux prises avec la survivance du fait historique révèle la réfutation du mythe du nègre sauvage et des stéréotypes racistes. Il en ressort que la vision du monde des auteurs se traduit par l’intention de reconstruire une nouvelle identité. En matérialisant par le biais de l’écriture le fait historique, Alain Mabanckou, Fatou Diome et Tahar Ben Jelloun relèvent le défi face à cette époque saturée d’images et hyper connectée où les faits instantanés tendent à supplanter la place de la mémoire dans le nouveau destin de l’Homme du XXIe siècle.